The CW’s Charmed heads to the future, this time without the help of Celeste’s Time Travel Spell. Instead, when viewers tune in to the season premiere, they’ll find that a considerable amount of time has passed since the events of last season’s heartbreaking finale.
PopWire participated in a roundtable interview with stars Melonie Diaz and Sarah Jeffery while they were on set filming the new season. Here, they talk about where they and their respective characters’ relationships are when their spellbinding series returns.
Sarah admits that she didn’t really know which direction they were going to go with her character. After having conversations with the new showrunners — Jeffrey Lieber, Joey Falco and Nicki Renna — she discovered that her character will be shown in a whole new light.
“We will see this other side of Maggie that we haven’t really touched on yet,” Jeffery says. “A more intense side of her which is really fun because obviously, you want to do it all as an actor. We’ve seen the light side of her and right out of the gate in the [season premiere], she’s pretty tough.”
After the tragic loss of their sister Macy Vaughn, Mel does her best to cope by trying to forget everything — and in the process goes kinda wild. “Mel is just going balls to the wall, going to the bars, dating girls, drinking,” Melonie Diaz says. “I think it’s been really fun to play that and to see Mel having fun versus her trying to control everything. I think the audience will have a lot of fun seeing her do that too. That’s where we find her in the beginning of the season.”
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With Mel going to bars and dating girls, does that mean Ruby (Bethany Brown) is out of the picture? While there’s no way of telling for sure, Diaz shares that the two have a really good turn of events. “I think [Mel] learns a lot about how she behaved and worked as a partner — the good stuff and the bad stuff,” Diaz says.
“I think that really helps Mel reevaluate who she is as a person in a relationship, which I think it’s really cool. Sometimes I think you could think that you’re never wrong until you have a person that’s like, ‘You weren’t this or that way.’ I think it’s really cool to see Mel become reflective of that.”
As for Maggie and Jordan (Jordan Donica), Jeffery reveals viewers will see a “different side” of their relationship. It is one that “has its own peaks and valleys” while they’re “stumbling through a romantic relationship and trying to maintain the friendship. It’s very real, I would say.”
What’s also very real is Jordan’s power. In the Season 3 finale, everyone watched as light emanated from his hand as he healed Maggie’s wound. In the past two seasons, we’ve seen Jordan play an essential role in helping out the Charmed Ones. Heading into the supernatural drama’s new season, the boxing instructor will get even more involved, and this time, he has an advantage.
“He’s right in there,” Jeffery says. “He’s right in the action, which I think has been really nice to have him become even more of an integral part of the team. Before, he was the human that knows, the one that’s in on the secret, but now he’s really in. We see it in the first episode of season 4 and you’re going to continue to see it in different ways. Yeah, he really pulls through.”
Charmed Season 4 premieres Friday, March 11 at 8pm on The CW.
